Op-Ed: Harvey Proctor, 68, a former Conservative MP has gone public to accuse British police working on operations involving historical alleged sex and child abuse of running a witch-hunt.

Proctor, according to the Guardian, has disclosed that "he has been questioned over the alleged murder of three boys supposedly linked to an “elite Westminster sex ring”."

Mr. Proctor obviously decided he had nothing to lose going public about two interviews with police and at a press conference Tuesday called the police team running one arm of the investigations into abuse, Operation Midland, as good as 'incompetent'.

He said the team's boss should be put handling parking offences and Operation Midland should be wound up.

Operation Midland was set up to investigate allegations that boys were systematically abused by an establishment paedophile ring.

Police at Scotland Yard say their unnamed accuser, referred to as 'Nick', is credible and true.

Proctor has said police should charge him with murder or his accuser should be stripped of his anonymity and charged with perverting the course of justice.

In a statement Tuesday Proctor said "It is so far-fetched to be unbelievable; it is unbelievable because it is not true. My situation has transformed from Kafka-esque bewilderment to black farce incredulity.”

Harvey Proctor was a Tory MP for Essex from 1979 to 1987. He quit his parliamentary role after pleading guilty to acts of gross indecency with a man who was under the age of consent. As Wikipedia puts it "In June 1986, The People newspaper published claims that Proctor had taken part in spanking and cane beating of male prostitutes, aged between 17 and 21, in his London flat."

At that time the age of homosexual consent was 21.

Proctor claimed he thought one man was aged 21 but he was charged with gross indecency and quickly resigned.

But the problem is that while Proctor was busy defending himself and his 'honour' on Tuesday he was scathing about victims and survivors of child and sex abuse.

Who would not applaud his statement “I am a homosexual? I am not a murderer. I am not a paedophile or pederast” as long as it is true. The allegations against him are:

● In 1980, Proctor is accused of stripping and tying a boy to a table in a house in central London, stabbing the child through the arm and the body over 40 minutes, before raping and killing the boy through strangulation. “Nick” claims to be a witness to the murder. ● In a London home between 1981 and 1982, Proctor is accused of anally raping “Nick” at a party before being joined by two other men who then punched and kicked an alleged victim who is believed to have died. ● In Kingston-upon-Thames, between May and June 1979, “Nick” claims he witnessed a boy being run down and killed by a car, and believes Proctor was part of the group responsible for the killing. ● Proctor is accused of raping “Nick” with several other males in Dolphin Square between 1979 and 1984. ● He is alleged to have opened the door to the exclusive Carlton Club when “Nick” was taken there by a rapist between 1978 and 1981. ● Proctor is accused of raping “Nick” at a swimming pool party in central London between 1978 and 1981. ● Between 1981 and 1982, Proctor is accused of forcing “Nick” to perform oral sex in a large townhouse in central London. On another occasion, Proctor is also accused in the same venue of producing a pen knife and threatened to cut “Nick”’s genitals. ● Between 1979 and 1984, Proctor is accused of forcing “Nick” to perform oral sex before beating him with punches at a central London address. ● Over the same period, at locations including the Carlton Club, a flat in Dolphin Square and a central London home, Proctor was alleged to have been present at Christmas parties with “Nick”. At one of these parties, he is alleged to have forced “Nick” to perform oral sex.

Mr Proctor denies all allegations.

He also dismisses some of those accusing high-profile people of abuse as a "ragbag of internet fantasists."

The Police have been looking at other men for this crime sinse April. Havey Proctor is now not the main suspect.

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Eileen

26/8/2015 11:59:14 am

Thank you Stephen for reading and commenting.

So why the public confrontation Tuesday? Was it because he felt hounded, say online, or to force the hand of the police?

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Stephen

27/8/2015 03:15:23 am

Harvey Proctor is being set-up by operation Midland, his main interests, all his life, have been corporal-punishment, not cutting people with knoves, or having sex. No mention was made of him caning, or slippereing anyone, so it is probably a case of mistaken identity.

'Nick' has probably already made a mistake in identifying one of the vitims, which can only be proved by finding out where that victim was kept for one month, otherwise we are talking about three unknown victims.

There was a man living in Brixton, who resembled Harvey Proctor, and he had a friend, a doctor, who was also a paedophile. A doctor was mentioned.
These two may have abducted Vishal Mehrotra as well. That man is due out of prison soon.

Harvey Proctor has been kept in the dark about other suspects being reported to the police for the same crimes.

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Eileen

31/8/2015 12:31:03 pm

Sorry for the late reply Stephen

I remember there was another case of mistaken identity previously - with Lord McAlpine I believe.

I will keep watching this case-I hope justice is served, finally

Hannah

28/8/2015 04:02:35 pm

The real root of the problem is that the police was prevented from the very top at the time to investigate and bring it to the courts. Now after over twenty years it is very hard to get to the truth. Also the guilty ones got now so much power with the Tories being back again.

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